PA Straw Purchaser Caught Selling .9mm Crime Gun

“On May 30, [Michael J.] Henry, allegedly acting as a ‘straw purchaser,’ went to a Jeffersonville gun shop and bought a .9mm Beretta – the weapon that authorities said [Andrew C.] Thomas used five months later to kill Plymouth Township K-9 Officer Bradley Fox [above].” philly.com reports that Henry told investigators that he bought nine firearms for Thomas. Needless to say, the the PA po-po’s presser named names, putting In Site Firearms and French Creek Outfitters in the frame. They somehow forgot to mention that one of their own was at the helm of the store that sold the murder weapon. “In Site Firearms in the Burnridge Shopping Center is owned and operated by retired West Norriton Police Officer Luke J. Kelly (not pictured above).” Question: why does it make any difference where the gun came from anyway? [h/t JR]

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I frequent both these shops and both are great, friendly, helpful places. It’s a shame that they have to be associated with the assassination of a police officer, but if it was a straw purchase, what could they do? It isn’t as if they sold it knowingly to this sick individual, but that’s why the straw purchaser is facing 60+ years…sad all around. Except the .9mm part. C’mon now.

Another satisfied customer of both shops. Straw purchasing is impossible to stop, and both places do their best to engage buyers in conversation before they make a sale. As long as people with clean records are willing to break the law for criminals, nothing can be done to stop this from happening.

Yet more evidence the Brady Background Check system is a marketing exercise with no practical effect on crime prevention.

If a bad guy for some reason wants to buy a gun from an FFL, he’ll send his GF/Wife/brother/sister in to complete the paperwork. Lying on a Federal form isn’t a big deal to a Latin King. In Chicago a story recently ran on how a pistol found at a gang shooting was traced to a guy who had a side job selling guns he bought legally to crooks.

While bad guys’ relatives are buying guns illegally at the gun counter, good American men and women are being delayed and denied because their names are similar to crooks’ on the computer screen at NICS.

Something to think about next time you’re waiting for Uncle Sam to clear your next gun purchase.

First, it’s tragic that a man had to die. Second the people involved have been found so let’s hope they never see free air again.

And 3rd, if you’re retarded enough to buy a gun in your own name and then supply it ti criminals you need to spend a long time behind bars. Who’s that stupid? You’re going to buy a gun for your meth head family member with a long history of crime and expect that it’ll all work out well?

Guns should not be regulated. Stupid should be regulated. Stupid should hurt. A lot.

The control freaks want to trace the path of every gun so they can file lawsuits, press for charges to be filed, and generally agitate until all gun stores are closed. The stupider the law or the policy, the more data required to put it into action, all too often.